List of Movies - Slavery

The series seeks to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.

London, 1826. Frannie Langton, a black woman torn from her roots in Jamaica and sold as a slave to the marriage formed by famous scientist George Benham and her beautiful wife, Madame Marguerite, faces a trial for murder. She does...

A historical epic inspired by the true events that happened in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.

A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.

TV Series (2022). 4 Episodes. Follows Abraham Lincoln's complex journey to end slavery with insights from journalists, educators and Lincoln scholars, including rare archival materials.

Follows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story.

Tecora is a Portuguese slave ship that was used to transport slaves from Africa to Europe.

The story is told in the third person, focusing mainly on Cora. Scattered single chapters also focus on Cora's mother Mabel, the slavecatcher Ridgeway, a reluctant slave sympathizer named Ethel, and Cora's fellow slave Caesar.

Enslaved is a six-episode docuseries that explores 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World by following the efforts of Diving with a Purpose, as they search for and locate six slave ships that went down with th...

Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this limited series based on the National Book Award-winning novel. The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Br...

1899. Slavery has recently been abolished in Brazil. After the death of their last housemaid, the three women of the Soares family are at a loss in the rapidly expanding city of São Paulo. The family, which once owned coffee plan...

A 14-year-old Cambodian boy leaves home in search of a better life but is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he realises his only hope of freedom is to b...

The story of Harriet Tubman (Cynthia Erivo), who helped free hundreds of slaves from the South after escaping from slavery herself in 1849.

Amongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana, an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son.

Two ordinary guys in a small town embark on an extraordinary adventure and risk everything for a stranger in need.